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he always respected the rights of others. He 
kept up with the improvements of the age. His 
broad and liberal ideas embraced every impor¬ 
tant enterprise at home and abroad, and he was 
always ready to take an active part in every 
good work, contributing liberally of his time and 
means for its advancement. He was a true Pa¬ 
triot; feeling a deep interest in the welfare of 
the country; he participated actively in its efforts 
to put down the rebellion.” 
But the limits and particular object of this no¬ 
tice will permit me to include but a small part of 
what has been most worthily said of him as a cit¬ 
izen. I may, however, add that all whose 
pleasure it has been to visit him at his farm¬ 
house will bear testimony to his high social 
qualities and his generous hospitality. 
As an agriculturist, Mr. Brown stood pre-emi¬ 
nently high, and as such I desire to speak of 
him. He was proud of his occupation and 
“ honored his calling.’' 
He was not content with obtaining crops equal 
to his neighbors, but to obtain the largest results 
of which the land was capable, with economical 
practice. If • 1 he who makes two blades of grass 
to grow where,but one grew before is a bene- 
factor,” then truly he was a benefactor for bis 
fields produced nearly or quite double the quan¬ 
tity of good grain to the acre of tarrns generally. 
His mode of agriculture was not of the ple¬ 
thoric kind of making great outlays to achieve 
astonishing results, but simply the exercise of a 
sound judgment applied to systematic and per¬ 
severing effort. While science was his constant 
study, he depended upon a judicious application 
of it for success. Very few farmers in Central 
New York can show a record of crops so uni- 
fonnily good as the following will show: 
I recollect several rears ago, when on a visit at 
his house, being shown a field of eight acres, 
from which he had'recently harvested four hun¬ 
dred bushels of wheat. The ground and the 
grain being accurately measured was found to 
yield a trifle over-fifty bushels to the acre, of the 
best quality of white’wheat. At another time I 
saw a field that produced 65 bushels of winter 
barley to the acre, and another that yielded sixty 
bushels of Poland touts to the acre. His com 
crop was usually forty to sixty bushels shelled 
com to the acre, and sometimes reached eighty 
bushels to the acre. Although the foregoing 
were his good crops, they were not unfrequent 
hut usually approximated nearly to them. The 
quality and clean condition of his grain secured a 
ready market for most of it at bus own door for 
seed. 
His farm was a model farm in respect to its 
good condition. Not that the land was naturally 
rich and productive but was made so by a gene¬ 
rous supply of manure and other fertilizers, 
clean and thorough cultivation, rotation of crops, 
and judicious adaptation of the crop to the soil. 
It was his motto that ‘‘good farmingpays best,” 
and he acted upon that principle. To what has 
been stated should be added the use of the best 
kind of agricultural implements, which he was 
sure to Lave always on hand, in the best of cou 
dition. and well stored when not in use. 
Before taking leave of this subject it seems 
proper to speak of Mr. Brown in bis efforts with 
others to elevate the character of agriculture, 
and to make it respectable aud profitable. He 
was several years President of the Onondaga 
County Agricultural Society when in its most 
prosperous condition. It was his habit for many 
years to attend State. County and Town Agri¬ 
cultural Fairs and other meetings to promote the 
cause of agriculture. He was frequently called 
to act upon important committees, and to make 
addresses, consequently he was well known in 
Central New York, not only as a friend to Agri¬ 
culture, but as a man of general intelligence and 
held in high estimation as a man of public spirit 
aud a gentleman. 
The death of such a man is a public loss and a 
domestic bereavement. But the evidence he has 
left of his hope iu the Redeemer and his unwav¬ 
ering trust in the great atonement, leaves the 
comforting assurance that he is called to the 
“Sweet fields of Ede-u wnere the tree of life is 
blooming,” and to partake of the “ fruits of the 
tree of life, and to drink of the waters of life, 
proceeding out of the Throne of God and the 
Lamb.” h. 
Edward Everett, one of the most con¬ 
servative of American statesmen, and the most 
accomplished of American orators, died, at his 
residence on Summer street, Boston, of apo¬ 
plexy, on the morning of the 15th of January 
lash In an appropriate order, dated a few 
hours after his death, the Secretary of State, 
under the direction of the President, rnniouneed 
this important event, aud instructed the several 
Executive Departments of the Government to 
“cause appropriate houors to be rendered to 
the memory of the deceased, at home and 
abroad, wherever the national name and au- 
* • 
thority are acknowledged.” 
Edward Everett was born iu Dorchester, 
Massachusetts, April 11,1794, He was the son 
of a New England clergyman, the Rev. Oliver 
Everett, and was the youngest of three broth¬ 
ers, one of whom, the late Alexander Hill 
Everett, is well known as having filled with 
credit many diplomatic positions under ~our 
Government. Mr. Everett was graduated at 
Harvard College at the early age of seventeen. 
Two year? afterward he was ordained as pastor 
of the Brattle Street Church, in Boston, tilling 
the place left vacant by the brilliant and 
lamented Buckminster. At this early stage of 
his career he was greatly admired lor the finish 
and elegance of his pulpit discourses. In* his 
college course he had chiefly distinguished 
himself for his aptitude as a linguist. He had 
been tutor at the college before his clerical 
appointment, and before he was twenty-one he 
was offered the Eliot Professorship of Greek 
literature at Harvard, and in order fully to 
qualify himself for the duties of that office he 
traveled in Europe. Four years were occupied 
iu travel and study, and upon his return in 1819 
he entered upon a career at Harvard which was 
memorable not oulv for the cuthusiasm which 
Mr. Everett created iu the students of that' 
institution, but also for the popular interest 
which his lectures on classic literature excited 
in Boston and its vicinity. For the five years 
following, lie, in addition to his purely classical 
labors, conducted the North American Review. 
Mr, Everett's celebrated Phi Beta Kappa 
oration at Cambridge, in 1824, was the first of 
that long series of popular orations which have 
established his fame as the most elegant of Amer¬ 
ican rhetoriciaus. On that occasion General 
Lafayette was seated at his side upon the 
platform, and at the close of his address the 
speaker paid ft graceful tribute to this distin¬ 
guished compatriot of Washington. 
Mr. Everett's political life commenced with 
his election to Congress from the Middlesex 
District in 1824. He served in the nouse for 
ten years, and was duriug that period a member 
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, aud in 
the. 20t.li Congress was made Chairman of that 
Committee. In 1834 he was elected Governor 
of Massachusetts, an office which he held for 
four years. In 1840 he was appointed by Presi¬ 
dent Harrison as Minister of the United States 
to the British Court. Upon bis return. In 1S45, 
he accepted the Presidency of Harvard College, 
from which, after three yean 
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he retired, and 
in 1852, upon the death of Mr. Webster, was 
appointed Secretary of State. In 1>53 he took 
his scat in the Senate, but owing to his ill health 
was obliged to resign. Since that time his 
efforts have been chiefly devoted to the collec¬ 
tion of the ftind for the purchase of Mount 
Vernon, for which he realized the stun of more 
than $100,000. His ardent devotion to the 
Union in the time of her greatest peril is held 
in the grateful remembrance of the American 
people. His last official act was the casting of 
his Electoral Vote for President Lincoln. 
Mr. Everett was punctual and methodical 
in the performance of every official duty, sensi¬ 
tive iu temperament, and reserved and courtly 
in manner. While he was a man of elegant 
taste, he was also eminently practical, though 
unfitted to the bustle aud strife of actual fife. 
The last speech which Mr. Everett made was 
at Faneuil Hal! on the 9th of January, in behalf 
of the people of Savannah. 
Edward Everett died a private citizen, al¬ 
though his whole life had been devoted to public 
servieq. He died at a most fortunate momeut 
for bis fame; aud iu the general gratitude for his 
faithful service during the war everybody was 
willing to forget that his prescience had not 
been equal to his patriotism. But if a man 
strikes with all his might wheu danger comes 
to his country it is rather hard to reproach him 
that he did not see it coming, Iu our recent 
history we have all had need of much forbear- 
ence. If some did uot see the approach of dau- 
ger, they have at least been conspicuously steady 
and strong when It appeared; aud, on the other 
and all the lower flags in the city, hanging at 
half mast. People in cars coming from the 
couutry to see the pageant were consulting 
where to find the best places, aud there was but 
one topic in all circles. The street near the 
church was thronged; the building overflowed ; 
the streets through which the procession was to 
pass were lined with spectators, and many of the 
shops upon the route were hung in mourning, 
while business was generally suspended. By 
and by the minute-guns on the Couuuou and at 
the Navy-yard began to boom slowly; the 
church bells solemnly tolled; aud the roll of 
muffled drums aud the long, pealing, melan¬ 
choly wall of the wind instruments filled the air. 
rs, the infantry, the hcavy- 
:es passed by, 
above we believe it proper to add a few words influences both the minds and hearts of men. 
of our own. Every even has its lesson; and We are no hero-worshiper. We estimate men by 
we believe the occasion of the death of this their work. We have little respect for reputed 
great scholar the proper oae for saying what we greatness, for it often has only a paper existence, 
have seen iu his life that impressed us; for we so we pay no tribute to the above named gentle- 
have watched his course a* a public mau with no i men which is born of partisan admiration, 
little interest, have listened to his eloquence, Neither do we consider at all the political 
and paid proper tribute both to his talents aud history of Everett iu our estimate ot him. 
culture. ^ We give him all the honor that is his, but we 
M c have long regarded Howard Everett au do not want our young readers, especially, to 
illustration of the taet thu great learning is not mistake great learniug for great wisdom, nor 
great wisdom. There is nothing iu his lite, nor believe the acquirement of great knowledge the 
iu the work of his life, to warrant us iu eonelud- highest aim iu life. Rather remember that the 
mg that his scholarly accomplishments have man who accumulates knowledge should, at the 
helped him to reach the hearts of men, to same time, learn how to use it, and never neg- 
awaken the sympathies ami best impulses of the leet to use it for the benefit of others as well as 
masses, uor to sway their minds by the magic the glorification of his own life. 
The mounted soldier 
curtained hearse, the file of carriag 
and the orator who, within the week, had made 
the last speech of his many speeches upon the 
theatre of his many triumphs, was hidden from 
human eyes forever. 
The public sorrow at Everett’s death is iu 
many of the noblest minds also an act of for¬ 
giveness. Had he died four years before, he would 
have missed his best fame. No student of his 
time eau forget that, until those four years, the 
gifts and graces of this uoted American citizen 
were lost to the cause of America. If it were 
uot recorded, his own confession would remind 
us of It, Aud the simplest and noblest act of 
Ills life, the act which restored him to the love 
of his old admirers and the fresh respect of the 
new, was the avowal that he had mistaken his 
times. With a happiness and satisfaction he 
had not known for many a year, he saw at last 
that America was Liberty, and bowing bis heart 
before her she touched his lips with a sweeter 
music than they had ever known. 
And one of t tie truest and most honored priests 
of that Liberty, William Cullen Bry ant, born 
in the same year with Mr. Evere it, speaks for all 
who have lamented the long palliatiou of fatal 
wrong which his temperament and training im¬ 
posed upon Everett, iu saying at the Union 
League Club in New York:—“If I have ever 
uttered anything in derogation of Mr. Everett’s 
public character, at times when it seemed to me 
he did uot resist with becoming spirit the ag¬ 
gression of wrong, I now, looking back upon 
his noble record of the last four years, retract it 
at his grave; I lay upou his hearse the declaration 
of my sorrow that 1 saw not then the depth of his 
worth, that I did uoi discern under the eouserv 
atism which formed a part of his nature that 
generous courage which a great emergency could 
so nobly awaken." 
We copy the foregoing into the Rusal from 
articles which have appeared in Harper’s 
Weekly aud Monthly publications. To the 
Written l'or Moore’s Karat New-Yorker 
SQUIRE M. BROWN. 
His presence was like a glittering iceberg, uot 
warm and glowing, thaw.ug out the hearts of 
men and developing growth and fragrance in 
their lives like the sunn ier sun. His liberal 
culture was mental culture, and the power it 
gave him was never used ignobly, perhaps; but 
it is also true that it was never exerted to stir 
the hearts of men to tiieir purification and 
elevation. 
We do uot know that 1 is name is connected 
with any broad, comprehensive effort for the 
beueflt of Americans as people iu a way at 
all commensurate with hi- reputed intellectual 
attainments. True, he retearsed his eulogy of 
Washington to aid iu the redemption of Wash¬ 
ington's Grave from the hands of degenerate 
descendants. But we doubt if any thinking 
man ever heard him del.vcr this eulogy who 
weut away from the listening with his heart 
stirred, nay, even reached, by the polished 
jvorda of Everett. 
A lifetime has been spen: iu polishing without 
using; God designed such a mind tobe polished 
by use. True, every mat has his place. We 
suppose Edward Everett had his. We do 
not seek iu auy wise to detract from his good 
name aud fame. We estinate his accomplish¬ 
ments as highly as anv one can. We credit him 
with great intellectual industry But wo would 
not point to his life wo;k as one which we 
should desire our boy to emulate. Compared 
with his greatness, sue! men as John B. 
Gough, Gerrit Smith, Wendell Philips, 
Horace Mans, John Eucsson, Samuel B. 
Mouse, Stephen A. Douglas, aud Horace 
Greeley, were and are greater. Erratic as 
some of the men above named may be regarded, 
unsound as may be their ethics, misdirected as 
their work iu life may have been, it has uot j 
lacked in the positive and vital character which 
When a friend to agriculture, oue that has con¬ 
tributed much time aud influence to advance its 
interest, is stricken down with death, it is due to 
the memory of the deceased, and to the cause he 
supported and honored, to publish such facts 
aud remiuiseeuecs of his life as are calculated 
to do justice to his character, aud advance the 
cause to which a long aud active life was devoted. 
Mr. Squire M. Brown of Elbridge, Onondaga 
County, N. Y., whose recent death has deprived 
the community of a valuable citizen aud the 
cause of agriculture of one of its most intelligent 
and devoted friends, has left a character and re¬ 
putation worthy to be held in remembrance and 
to be imitated. He possessed traits of character 
and tilled honorable positions in life in addition 
to his connection with agricultural pursuits 
worthy of notice and of record. This perhaps 
cauuot be done better than to quote from his 
obituary contained iu the Syracuse Daily Journal 
a few weeks since. 
“Mr, Squire M. Brown was boru in Berk¬ 
shire County, Mass, in August, 179s, and came to 
this county (Onondaga) to reside iu the year 
1816. His manhood developed early and he en¬ 
gaged in duties of active life quite young, as is 
evident from the fact that he held various offices 
for about forty years, which he tilled with ability 
and to the entire [satisfaction of the public, oc¬ 
cupying some important positiou most of the 
time up to the time of his death — among them 
President of the Village in which he resided, 
several times Supervisor of his town, and repre¬ 
sented his couuty iu the State Legislature in 
1832. He was well qualified to fill auy statlou in 
public or private life; as a presiding officer, 
prompt and decided, at the same time courteous 
and considerate. Conscious of his own rights, 
A DESCRIPTION OF COLERIDGE IN 1865 
Coleridge is an old man, exceedingly fond of 
talking, and with an eternal flow of language 
which nothing seems to exhaust. He generally 
talks well if he does not get too metaphysical, 
and I had the luck of being placed beside him at 
dinner, so that I had the most of his talk. One 
idea of his seemed to me good, and I do act 
think I have seen it in print, though it has often 
passed through my mind—that the knowledge of 
a future state, or rather Lhe consciousness of im¬ 
mortality, partook of the nature of an instinct. 
“No nation has been found without such a be¬ 
lief,” said he “ children feel the impression 
almost before you can say that they have been 
taught, and nature is never deceived in her 
instincts; birds never err in the building of their 
nests ; animals in a wild state always seek their 
proper food; and man, if he throws away this 
conviction is like a domesticated animal that 
grows wanton and eats dirt by way of change. 
The only time I ever saw 
mat temperament winch makes or controls 
epochs in human affairs. But he had remarka¬ 
ble gifts, aud they were remarkably cultivated. 
His powers ol literary acquisition were extraor¬ 
dinary, his memory singularly* trained and 
retentive, his intellectual habit rigidly metho¬ 
dical, aud his scholarship, therefore, was not 
only vast and various, but its resources were con¬ 
stantly at the command of his delicate taet and 
courtesy. If in public speaking he never in¬ 
spired his hearers, ho was always sure to charm 
them by the elegance aud symmetry of the form, 
and instruct them by the comprehensive aud 
well digested substance of his orations. Hla varl- 
ous accomplishments made him in many ways a 
most valuable foreign minister. 
It whs very striking to sec how Boston honored 
her son in his obsequies. Approaching the city 
from the north and east, aud rumbling over the 
piles that carry the railroads to the main land, 
you saw tfie fiag upou Bunker Hill monument, 
Lord Byron he 
pointed to a man In a state of brutal intoxica¬ 
tion, and asked if I thought that a proof of an 
immortal nature. 1 Your inquiry, my lord, is,' 
I answered; and so It was; it was the natural 
Instinct shrinking with abhorrence from the 
degradation of the soul.” Such conversation at 
a dinner party is not common, and L was much 
pleased with my place. He is au old man— 
rather heavy in appearance, excelting that his 
eyes brighten as no speaks, ana he is rarely 
silent; a good deal of action, though his move¬ 
ments have the air of infirmity, his hand is slow 
and unsteady, and Uls back s howed; he is sot 
corpulent, but square built. After dinner, 
when he came into the drawing-room, he began 
a regular lecture of about two hours’ dura¬ 
tion, which rather tired his hearers, and as I was 
out of his circle, I could uot hear what it was 
about. 
